These and other early SLBM systems required vessels to be surfaced when they fired missiles, but launch systems eventually were adapted to allow underwater launching in the 1950-1960s.

Carrier battle groups are especially well defended, as not only do they typically consist of many vessels with heavy air defence armament but they are also able to launch fighter jets for combat air patrol overhead to intercept incoming airborne threats.

Although some early models had to surface to launch their missiles, modern vessels typically launch while submerged at keel depths of usually less than 50 meters ( 164 feet ).

The plant clogs the motors of small boats, making it impossible for fishers to launch their vessels.

They then construct and launch the first of the colonization vessels, Pioneer 1.

This often required the more unusual technique of launching the vessels side-on into the river due to lack of space for a more conventional stern first or bow first launch.

None of the Shadow vessels attack, but Ivanova still orders the fighters to launch, but not to approach until she authorizes it.

The vessels were held in a tilt and release mechanism ; centrifugal force created by the rotation of the station ( or of the mid section of the Omega class destroyers from which they could also launch ) would essentially throw the fighters out of the launch bays, although they were only ever seen launching from the destroyers using the recovery bay located at the front of the ship.

Additionally, some celebrants individually launch their own, smaller vessels.

The Plan also proposes fishing piers with handicapped access and a boat launch for non-motorized vessels along with picnic areas to enjoy the river.

* Images of concrete vessels from the National Monuments Record Photographic record of the construction and launch of the Cretemanor at Preston and the Seacraft Concrete Co on the Mersey.

In fact, the relevant scene opens after the launch sequence had already begun and was left while fighters were still leaving the two vessels that were shown.

MTBs were designed for high speed, operating at night, low speed ambush ( to keep noise low and to produce no wake ) and manoeuvrability on the water ; this was to enable them to get close enough to launch their torpedoes at enemy vessels.

One of the unfortunate vessels caught up in the attempted escapes was the motor launch transporting Spooner, Air Vice-Marshal Conway Pulford and some 40 others.

They carry a contingent of at least 40 fighters which they can launch in the form of a sphere into groups of opposing vessels before they disperse and attack.

Sweden and especially Russia began to launch galleys and various rowed vessels during the Great Northern War in the 1700s.

Delivered in 1968, these were the first operational naval vessels to be armed with AS. 12 ( M ) with four launch rails on each side of the vessel's bridge.

On its launch, Channel 4 committed itself to providing an alternative to the existing channels, an agenda in part set out by its remit which required the provision of programming to minority groups.

The incident set an important precedent in terms of the apparent authority of Parliament to safeguard the nation's interests and its capacity to launch legal campaigns, as it later did against Buckingham, Archbishop Laud, the Earl of Strafford and Charles I.

Interrupted by the chief machinist requesting he celebrate the launch of 8½, Fellini put aside the letter and went on the set.

The inputs to the navigation circuit are set by a general purpose computer according to a navigational input schedule loaded into the missile before launch.

The Congress and various other Indian organisation threatened to launch protests if she were not set free.

The orbiter was lifted up on a sling very similar to the one used at Kennedy Space Center and placed inside the Dynamic Test Stand building, and there mated to the Vertical Mate Ground Vibration Test tank ( VMGVT-ET ), which in turn was attached to a set of inert Solid Rocket Boosters ( SRB ) to form a complete shuttle launch stack, and marked the first time in the program's history that all Space Shuttle elements, an Orbiter, an External Tank ( ET ), and two SRBs, were mated together.

Already in Japan, the records invest heavily in the launch of former Sambista's set of discs, which eventually created a market comprised solely of catalogs of Japanese record labels.

In order to set a precedent for ' freedom of space " before the launch of America's secret WS-117L Spy Satellites the USA had launched Project Vanguard as its own " civilian " satellite entry for the International Geophysical Year.

The theatrical movie Be Forever Yamato, set in the year 2202, sees the Black Nebula Empire launch a powerful weapon at Earth, a hyperon bomb which will annihilate humanity if they resist a full-scale invasion.

This was partly because MyNetworkTV was set to launch on September 5. SmackDown !, however, was aired in those markets on WB stations owned by Tribune, which have since become CW stations.

A notorious mutiny occurred during his command of HMS Bounty in 1789 ; Bligh and his loyal men made a remarkable voyage to Timor, after being set adrift in the Bounty's launch by the mutineers.

Amstrad has been a major supplier of set top boxes to UK satellite TV provider Sky since its launch in 1989.

Amstrad was key to the introduction of Sky, as it was the only manufacturer producing receiver boxes and dishes at the system's launch, and has continued to manufacture set top boxes for Sky, from analogue to digital and now including Sky's Sky + digital video recorder.

Several guerrilla groups seeking to establish an independent Assamese state in northeast India have set up guerrilla bases in the forests of southern Bhutan, from which they launch cross-border attacks on targets in Assam.

* The MAVEN spacecraft, part of NASA's Mars Scout Program, is set to launch in 2013.

However, the king is noticeably absent from the other stories set in Syldavia such as the launch of the moon rocket.

Instead of another party confirming a missile launch as in the case of land-based ICBMs, the set of keys is distributed among the key personnel on the submarine and are kept in safes ( each of these crew members has access only to his keys ), some of which are locked by combination locks.

Captain Bligh and loyal crew members set adrift in the Bounty's launch

The logistics of the time meant that it would have been risky or impossible to launch an invasion in August or September 1682 ( a three month campaign would have got the Ottomans to Vienna just as winter set in ).

However this 15 month gap between mobilization and the launch of a full-scale invasion allowed ample time for Vienna to prepare its defense and for Leopold to assemble troops from the Holy Roman Empire and to set up an alliance with Poland, Venice and Pope Innocent XI.

" Rocket launch technologies " generally refers to the entire set of systems needed to successfully launch a vehicle, not just the vehicle itself, but also the firing control systems, ground control station, launch pad, and tracking stations needed for a successful launch and / or recovery.

Test operations were under Kurt Debus, who set up the Interim Test Stand and the launch facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

In November 2006, Lycos began to roll out applications centered around social media, including the first " watch and chat " video application with the launch of its Lycos Cinema platform.

Some missiles may have additional propulsion from another source at launch ; for example the V1 was launched by a catapult and the MGM-51 was fired out of a tank gun ( using a smaller charge than would be used for a shell ).

Unfortunately, the spacecraft suffered technical difficulties soon after launch and fell back to Earth so the experiment was never carried out.

The launch was finally carried out on May 16, 2011.

Inertial motion sensors are activated upon launch, and when the sensors detect downward acceleration after being blown out of the water, the first stage engine ignites.

Scientific research — whether to launch or test out new theories, to innovate or to pave the way for discoveries across a wide range of disciplines — became part of the increased expectations placed on the university.

When Soviet officials filled out the FAI papers to register the flight of Vostok 1, they stated that the launch site was Baykonur at.

* July 29 – The United Kingdom opts out of the Space Race, with the cancellation of its Black Arrow launch vehicle.

** Apollo 1: U. S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.

On January 27, 1967, Grissom, White and Chaffee were participating in a " plugs-out " countdown demonstration test at Cape Kennedy in preparation for the planned February 21 launch, when a fire broke out in the cabin, killing all three men.

Fresh out of art college, Christine found that she did not have enough money to launch herself into the art world, so she moved to London, where she worked briefly as a department store window dresser.

The main Centaur engine was ignited 265 seconds after launch, but the upper stage began to oscillate in pitch and tumbled out of control.

He says, " Suppose we tell the Soviets that if they invade West Berlin we will launch an out nuclear attack.

Supposedly, the liner started to slide into the water before Elizabeth could officially launch her, and acting sharply, she managed to smash a bottle of Australian red over the liner's bow just before it slid out of reach.

For example, in 1890 Alexandra wrote a memorandum, distributed to senior British ministers and military personnel, warning against the planned exchange of the British North Sea island of Heligoland for the German colony of Zanzibar, pointing out Heligoland's strategic significance and that it could be used either by Germany to launch an attack, or by Britain to contain German aggression.

Funds that she helped to collect were used to buy a river launch, called Alexandra, to ferry the wounded during the Sudan campaign, and to fit out a hospital ship, named The Princess of Wales, to bring back wounded from the Boer War.

Afterwards, Axis forces would use the Canary Islands, the Azores and the Cape Verdes Islands to launch naval and air attacks that would destroy British commerce and knock Britain out of the war.

Wanting to launch a keyboard / bass / drum band, Emerson and Lake sought out a drummer.

Chiang believed that he was still too weak to launch an offensive to chase out Japan and that China needed time for a military build-up.

Two similar zero-length launch experimental programs were carried out by the US Air Force and by the Soviet VVS at around the same time in the late 1950s.

A production contract was signed in January 1958 and the only submarine launch was carried out from the USS Grayback in September 1958.

Shortly after backing out of the amnesty deal and its promise of stopping to attack Israel that Al Aqsa agreed to a month earlier, al-Aqsa gunmen in Gaza have announced that they are starting to launch hundreds of rockets and mortar shells at Israeli towns and cities and named the campaign, “ Hole in the Wall II .”

The parking orbit was a stable " mission plateau " that gave the crew and controllers several hours to thoroughly check out the spacecraft after the stresses of launch before committing it to a long lunar flight ; the crew could quickly return to earth, if necessary, or an alternate earth-orbital mission could be conducted.

( Only the first launch, used to test the overall launch vehicle design rather than to launch a space vehicle, was classed as a failure ; it did however, prove out the design.